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Mercury as the relic of Earth and Venus' outward migration
Matthew S. Clement, Sean N. Raymond, John E. Chambers
In spite of substantial advancements in simulating planet formation, the planet Mercury's diminutive mass, isolated orbit, and the absence of planets with shorter orbital periods i…
The early instability scenario: Mars' mass explained by Jupiter's orbit
Matthew S. Clement, Nathan A. Kaib, Sean N. Raymond +1
The formation of the solar system's giant planets predated the ultimate epoch of massive impacts that concluded the process of terrestrial planet formation. Following their formati…
Born extra-eccentric: A broad spectrum of primordial configurations of the gas giants that match their present-day orbits
Matthew S. Clement, Rogerio Deienno, Nathan A. Kaib +3
In a recent paper we proposed that the giant planets' primordial orbits may have been eccentric (~0.05), and used a suite of dynamical simulations to show outcomes of the giant pla…
Stability of Neptune's distant resonances in the presence of Planet Nine
Matthew S. Clement, Scott S. Sheppard
Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) in the scattered disk with 50 < a < 100 au are thought to cluster near Neptune's n:1 resonances (e.g: 3:1, 4:1, and so on). While these objects spend…
Dynamical avenues for Mercury's origin II: in-situ formation in the inner terrestrial disk
Matthew S. Clement, John E. Chambers
Modern terrestrial planet formation models are highly successful at consistently generating planets with masses and orbits analogous to those of Earth and Venus. In stark contrast…
Dynamical avenues for Mercury's origin I: The lone survivor of a primordial generation of short-period proto-planets
Matthew S. Clement, John E. Chambers, Alan P. Jackson
The absence of planets interior to Mercury continues to puzzle terrestrial planet formation models, particularly when contrasted with the relatively high derived occurrence rates o…